Sophie is a multi-disciplinary visual artist with a focus on film, documentary, and storytelling. She was recently awarded a Fulbright National Geographic Society Fellowship, researching and producing a hybrid documentary/cinema project about the Kyrgyz Space Program. As an accomplished cinematographer, engaging the span between artistic expression and scholarly depth, she is forging innovative paths in experimental storytelling with a deep commitment to education on documentary making, offering insight into human and cultural connections to land, sky, and creatures.

Her project on the women of the Kyrgyz Space Program encompasses Cosmos Dreams: myth-making, sky, nomadism and space travel. Sophie’s years of film work includes documentaries about ephemeral art/science collaborations in the Antarctic, mountain life-ways in the Himalaya, equine cultures and semi-nomadic customs in Kyrgyzstan. 

Several documentaries focus on empowerment and the amplification of less heard voices, and she also produced a series of 6 films about the relationships between horses and humanity. The most recent: “Wings of Kyrgyzstan” (Arte) - is a documentary about rural life and horse culture in Kyrgyzstan. Her Masters in Visual Anthropology thesis film in 2020 was “The Last Lullaby” a biographical window into the life of a death midwife.

Other recent projects she directed include music videos for Cheri Moon - “Ain’t I a Woman” and “Madame Max”. Films "77 Below" and experimental short "Come to the Edge", were shot on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

She has guest lectured at AUCA and UCA in Kyrgyzstan and contributed to documentary workshops with presentations focussed on ethical storytelling, camera as incursion or guest, filmmaking in the field, interview technique and media literacy.

Sophie's debut narrative feature film was "Dogstar", a tragic love story between an otherworldly recluse and a misfit junkie and was billed as a rustic Colorado update of O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi.  Critics described it as "pleasingly sensuous" and a "well-crafted, winsome fairy tale".  Sophie runs Horsefly Films Rare Equine Trust, a production company based in Los Angeles.  With Jen Miller she produced a series of documentaries focused on rare horses and vanishing equine cultures. which include award winning films "Path to Glory", "Tarpan",  "Of Gods and Kings" and "Talking to the Air".  They also produced commercial work and films for NGOs and equine clientele.  Their most recent new films include “Stallion of a Dream: California and the Camarillo White Horse”, a documentary about the roots of California ingenuity and horsepower. “Wings of Kyrgyzstan” (Arte France/Germany) is story of the lives of the semi-nomads of Kyrgyzstan, their maverick horsemanship and deep spiritual connection to their mountains, animals and beloved horses.

She also co-founded Shakti Pictures  - a documentary film production company with a social justice focus,  which has produced four films in Nepal. She and her co-producer Miranda Morton Yap spent months in a small village in the far west of Nepal to film "Daughters of the Curved Moon", (Arte France/Germany). She also shot "Talking to the Air: The Horses of the Last Forbidden Kingdom" in a remote Himalayan region and won several awards including a Jury award for “Visual Presentation of Intangible Cultural Heritage” from the International Festival of Ethnographic film in Serbia. She also shot two shorter documentaries about two remarkable women in the Transgender community in Kathmandu - "Pink Tiffany" and “Rubina by Night”.